
handle: 11499/44613
Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series presents its protagonist Bella Swan in a fairy tale-like world where she is surrounded withvampires and werewolves. In this world, Bella, as a figure of the girl in the woods, displays similar characteristics with thoseof the fairy tale type Little Red Riding Hood in Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, 1697),and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” (1812). However these characteristics are ideologically rewritten and basedon postfeminist politics that foreground female subjectivity through sexual agency, freedom of choice, and consumerism. Inthis postfeminist context, this study aims to examine Bella Swan in Twilight series as an embodiment of the deconstruction ofthe classic fairy tale type in terms of the politics of personal agency, sexuality and power relations. In this deconstruction, thegirl victim of the classic fairy tale becomes a twenty first century postfeminist girl who, in accordance with her consumeristchoices, is free to play with and manipulate werewolves and vampires in the woods.
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